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[rocker59]

I like it !!!

[Admin Jaap]

Lots of choppers are turning up on craigslist around here lately. Maybe that fad is finally running out of steam

Teutul Sr. will have to sell his Hummer "and what not"

[Guest ratchethack]

Teutul Sr. will have to sell his Hummer "and what not"

"I t'ink dat....duuuh, da Garbage Truck Bike is a tribute to da entire Sanitation Industry. Yeah. And duuuuh, it's real loud and da bars look great and it sounds real good and it rolls down da road real nice. And da flies dat Nubs painted on da tank look REAL, and dat chrome automatic dumpster handler dat Paulie came up wit' on da back, dat sets it off real nice...."

 

"....and what not."

[Guest Nogbad]

Never seen the appeal of these extreme choppers. They seem really to be a sort of niche art in the (vague) shape of a muttersickle. (In the loosest sense)

 

I guess if you like one, it is probably better to keep it in your lounge and not expose all that loving artistry to the vagaries of the elements.

 

They don't seem as if they would ride well because a lot of them can't actually lean over more than a degree or two for cornering, and it's hard to see how some of these things can be road legal at all!

[Guest ratchethack]

California has more'n its share of these 10-12-foot-long rolling boat-anchor eyesores.

 

On the outskirts of any northern border town in Mexico, it's typical to find a row of squalid roadside "art galleries". There, laid out in the scorching dust, one will find miserable little rows of an amazing variety of nauseating tchotchkes. Next to the plaster-of-paris figures of brightly painted fighting bulls, sombrero ashtrays, and saguaro cacti, one will invariably find the obligatory grotesquely-framed paintings of Elvis in bright colors on a field of black velvet.

 

Choppers (aka "long bikes") are the black velvet Elvis paintings of the motorcycle world.